Conviction Quotes

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

To be persuasive we must be believable. To be believable, we must be truthful.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

No one in 'Banshee' has small opinions. They have strong beliefs, and they will defend them ferociously. Having that element in the show just adds another level. It's another avenue for story, and it enriches the world.

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

Convictions are much more an enemy of the truth than lies.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Soros has taught me that when you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig. It takes courage to ride a profit with huge leverage.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.

The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

You cannot possibly persuade people that what they have firmly in mind is not so.

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

I don't believe. I know.